Chappy Asel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChappy Asel is a builder and community-focused AI leader with a decade of software engineering experience, from self-taught iOS apps at 12 to shipping prototypes for Apple Vision Pro and early Apple Intelligence demos. He founded and exited a top-ranked homework app in high school, cofounded venture-backed AI startups, and now chairs The AI Collective, a 200k+ member non-profit creating the human infrastructure for AGI. Equally comfortable in product, systems, and ML-inflected UX, he has driven API and framework design at Apple, led cross-functional engineering at Meta and Lime, and built consumer apps with millions of sessions. Chappy balances technical depth with social stewardship—his senior thesis on the technological singularity catalyzed a mission to prepare society for AI, which he practices by scaling global chapters and volunteer networks. He also bridges venture and operator worlds as a venture fellow/scout and advisor, spotting early AI signals while still shipping products like a top-10 weightlifting app. Outside work he’s a competitive natural bodybuilder and voracious reader, an unusual combination that underlines his discipline and intellectual curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & EngineeringThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChappyA12/Homework_iOS
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:172 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
ChappyA12/FantasyBasketball_iOS
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:112 commits, 105 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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